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Hereford City Excavations: Volume 3: The finds

R Shoesmith

CBA Research Report No 56 (1985)

ISBN 0-906780-53-5

Abstract

This is the final volume of the report on the excavations
which took place in Hereford between 1965 and 1976.

The only common factor to the excavations is that they
were all funded, to a greater or lesser part, by the Department
of the Environment or its predecessor, the Ministry of
Public Building and Works. Several directors were involved
in the work on behalf of various bodies and the general
policy, which evolved as sites became available, was the
development of the city defences from the origin of the city
until after the Civil War.

The excavations between 1965 and 1969 were mainly
organized or coordinated by the Hereford Excavations
Committee. Different directors were employed on individual
projects and the site records, which were eventually collected
together, varied from interim reports to full dossiers with
well-indexed finds. The Hereford Excavations Committee
was disbanded in 1969, when the work of constructing the
inner relief road was completed, and its records and
remaining assets were transferred to the Woolhope
Naturalists' Field Club. Unfortunately no provision was
made for post-excavation work or publication of the
Committee's researches and, apart from work published
during the life of the Committee (Stanford 1966; Noble
1967; Shoesmith 1967; 1968), the reports and finds were
stored pending a new policy.

The report of the excavations was the first volume to be
tackled and summaries were written, plans amended, and a
new cross-referencing system introduced to allow reference
from and to the microfiche sections in both the excavation
report volume and the finds volume. Excavations on and
close to the defences, complete with microfiche section, was
eventually published in 1982 as Research Report no 46 in
the CBA series.

The finds section was even more difficult to split into
printed text and microfiche than the excavation section had
been as there were many contributors involved. It was agreed
that the printed text should include a fair summary of all
the reports but that items of national interest should be
given some priority over sections which had a local or
regional bias. Several reports and many tables which had
originally been considered as archival material were edited
and included in the microfiche section thus creating a
further degree of confusion in the, by then, complex cross-referencing
system.